Within the OpenSolaris community, we have some arbitrary designations we give to people - contributor and community leader are amongst these.
I'd like to propose that how "contributor" status is designated such that it is granted to anyone and everyone that is in a position to do a putback or commit to the OpenSolaris code base. Right now, this would mean that all of those inside Sun who work on Solaris would immediately be given "Contributor" status. The benefit here is that there are some things that only "contributors" appear to be able to do and what they can't do only serves as a barrier for them to properly engage in various OpenSolaris communities. Therefore what I envision being the result of changing who is (or isn't) a "contributor" being is making it easier for everyone to participate in building OpenSolaris. Darren _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
